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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
MUST REACH NEW YORK.
The Baltimore & Ohio Will Build a Ro;
nf It's Own

The Baltimore & Ohio Will Build Road
of Its Own.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 3.-No
change has occurred in the relations
between the Baltimore & Ohio and
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Companies regarding the New York.
business OF the former company, and
no arrangement for the through pas
senger traffic has been effected. A
Baltimore & Ohio official was asked
to-day whether any attempt would be
made to run passenger trains over the
new connection and he replied: "Not
at present; fer practically at this
time we have no New York outlet and
[ do not think that any attempt
will be made legally to enforce
the existing contracts with the
Reading and Jersey Central, for it
would be poor policy to attempt to
make those lines fulfill any agreement
if they are really unfavorable to us.
But if something is not accom-
plished soon the Baltimore &
Ohio will consider itself as g.
line to Philadelphia, and yea may
expect some lively times Work has
been suspended on TIE double track
of the Baltimore & Philadelphia Rail-
road, the order having been given two
weeks ago to conine all operations
to maintenance Of way. The
Baltimore & Ohio must have an in
dependent line to New York, and if
such a line is not secured by connec-
tions with existing roads the company
will have route of it's own"
In other quarters doubt is thrown
on the announcement that the Balti-
more d Ohio is satisfied to consider
Philadelphia as it's terminus even for
the present and an authority in rail-
road matters remarked that if stop
ping at Philadelphia meant a threat,
he thought it improbable that Mr.. Gar
rett was disposed to disturb the pros
porous business relations of the coun-
try just now by q war OF rates.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12

AN appeal has been taken to the
supreme court from the decision OF
the Erie County surrogate in the con.
test over the will of the late Frank
W. Tracy, of Buffalo. The surrogate's
decision confirmed the will, which cut
off the only child OF the deceased, Miss
Harriet E. Tracy, with the interest on
100000, for her life, while the bulk
of the estate, about $780, 900, was
left to the second wife of the deceased
and others. The ground of the con-
test is that such an unnatural dispo-
sition of the property was due to
prejudice against the daughter
amounting to an insanity, incapaci-
Eating the decedent from properly rec
ognizing the duty he owed to his only
child.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12

The tendency of insurance rates on
Mississippi steamboats, can hardly be
downward at present, for the number
of these vessels. which have recently
been burned up is not small. It is
only q short time since several fine
steamers at New Orleans and Cincin-
natl were consumed, and now two
more have been destroyed in the same
way at Cairo. The plan on which
these river transports are built, and
the manner of slowing the cargo, in
crease the chances of confagration;
but little extra Watchfulness would
probably discount them materially.
Still if the owners and the underwrit-
ers can stand it, the public (if not on
board) need have nc objection.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
NO EXTRA SESSION.
The ImpossibiIity of Accomplishing Any
thing by Such a Course.

The Impossibility of accomplishing Any
thing by Such Course.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 5.-Al-
though many things are conjured up
now a-days which might well provoke
an extra session of Congress, 10
one in Washington really oe-
lieves such q thing as an extra SEES
sion among the probabilities. Tariff,
internal revenue, the surplus, bonds
for national bank securities, our
intercourse with Canada on the fish
cry question, and many other things
are mentioned; but if anyone will
stop to study the attitude of the
parties and the people on these mat
tiers, they will see the impossibility of
doing anything at an extra session and
the responsibility that would entail
upon the President in calling it. Re.
publicans say they dare the President
to call an extra session to reduce the
surplus; that it would end in more
political confusion than he could ex-
plain in q decade. It is folly to
think OF an extra session for q
subject on which the dominant party
is so split up as the tariff The
said not to be such as to admit of g
new basis for bank security. To dis
cuss diplomatic relations or interna-
tional trade means an opening up of
the question of coast defenses and the
disposition of the only real excuse
that is generally believed to be posi-
bic for an extra session. That is
coast defense. The hammering that
the people in New York and all
along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
are giving to Congress will have an eff
feet if kept up. The subject is more
talked ofnow than ever before AS this
contemplates the expenditure of be-
tween $50, 100000 and 100000, 900
it is a subject of great interest to the
whole country. It would elevate the
price of labor and the things which
people eat and wear. Until Congress
gets together upon some things there
will be no extra session.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
HAIGHTS STORY.
Forced by Poverty, He Plans the EXPIRES
Robbery.

Forced by Poverty, He Plans the Express
Robbery.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Jan. 5.-W. w.
Haight, one of Wittrock's accom-
plices in the train robbery, has fur
nished the local papers written
statement of his connection with the
affair. He says therein that poverty
and his inability to obtain employ
ment forced him to devise some means
whereby he might provide his wife and
child with the necessities of life. To
do this he planned the robbery and
approached Wittrock with the scheme.
Wittrock became enthusiastic over it.,
and thereafter took the affair into his
hands and he (Haight) heard nothing
more of him until he read an
account of the robbery in the
papers. Soon after that Wittrock
sent him $1,000 by Oscar Cook
and summoned him to Leavenworth.
There Wittrock gave him $4,000
more. He says it was he who forged
Mr.. Damsel's signature to the paper
which was presented to Fotheringham
and had the Adams Express letter
heads and envelopes printed. Foth-
eringham, he asserts, is absolutely in
nocent of each and every charge
brought against him
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
INFANT MUTUAL INSURANCE.
1T is Declared Illegal by Judge Barrett,
of New York.

1t is Declared Illegal by Judge Barrett,
of New York.
New YORK, Jan. 3.-Deputy Atty
Gen. Poste recently moved before JUS
tice Barrett, in supreme court cham
bers, to have the Globe Mutual Bene.
fit Association restrained from carry
ing on it's business, upon the ground
that the company was insolvent,
and that the insurance OF
infants as practiced by the as
ISOLATION is unauthorized by law.
Judge Barrett handed down a decis-
ion to-day in the case. He says:
'"The business of this company is linn
tied to that of life and casualty insur-
ance upon the cooperative and
assessment plan. Only members who
accept the contract obligations of such
membership can be thus insured. In
fants are not eligible as they
cannot make contract. Their
parents cannot insure their children
lives as members in such cooperative
or assignment companies. Only mem
bers can be insured, and an infant
cannot be q member of q society and
vote" The company's regulations
are illegal on the subject of insuring
children, was the conclusion of the
Judge. Judge Barrett concludes by
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12

At 2 O'Clock on the morning of the
4th, the west-bound fast train. known
as the Erie express, on the Baltimore
q Ohio road, collided with g. freight
train one mile west of Republic, O..
The express does not make stop at
the town OF Republic, village of 900
inhabitants, nine miles west of Tiff
fin, and it is supposed that it was
running at q speed of not less than
sixty miles an hour. The freight east
ward bound had expected to make g.
siding at Republic and was prob
ably making rate Of speed not
less than twenty miles an hour
and thus running in opposite
directions on the same track caused
q telescope as clean cut and disas-
trous as was ever witnessed. The en-
glnes were run into each other as one
stove-pipe fits into it's mate, and all
that could be seen was one chaotic
mass Of brass, iron and steel. The
fast train was composed of five Sleep
lrg-cars and four coaches filled with
passengers. 70 add CONSERVATION to
the horrible scene, fire broke out in
the smoking-car and soon spread to
the other cars. Many were killed out
right, while others, wedged in among
the broken cars, were slowly consumed
by the flames. The screams OF the
wounded and dying were heart
rending, but no assistance could
be given until farmer, who
was awakened by the crash, came,
and, with other neighbours, worked
like heroes to save the perishing. At
an early hour there were hundreds of
persons coming to the scene of dis
aster ready and anxious to do what
they could for any Of the unfortunate
sufferers who might need help, but it
appears that just as soon as the Bal
t1more d Ohio agents could get to the
place where the wreck occurred, for
some reason they hastily carried out
of the county the wounded, dying ard
dead. It. is believed that there were
at least twenty-five bodies burned in
to q sickening, crisp mass of flesh and
bones, beyond all possiblerecognition.
identified are: G. P. Bradley, Wash
ington, D. c., burned to death; Joseph
Portlethwaite, aged 81, on his way to
Chillicothe, Mo-; Spencer Portle-
thwaite, his son, aged 18, burned to
death; M. FL. Parks, burned to death;
Fireman William Frederick, of the ex-
press. The injured are: Baggage
master w. F. Gates, of Newark, N. j.,
both legs hurt; Engineer Lem. East
man, of the express, knee cut; Harry
Forester, of Chicago, scalp wounds
and bruises.
Conductor Fletcher says the engi-
neer of the freight was drunk. His
name is Kyler. Conductor Haskell, of
the passenger train, was in the sleeper
and ran forward in time to receive
some papers from the dying men, Bal
lard and Parks. The piles of ashes
and debris to be seen at the place
of the collision are full of bones, re-
mains of iewelry and melted silver
money. Ten of the killed are utterly
unknown. An old gentleman named
Ferguson, of Bloomdale, left Pitts
burg on the express and has not since
been heard from. The blame seems
to be with the crew of the freight.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
NORTH CARoL1NA's Supreme cour

NORTH CARoLINA's Supreme court
decides that the state license tax OF
500 on "drummers'' from other COM
monwealths is constitutional. This
is surprising in view of the rulings by
the United States supreme court that
such tax is violation of the provis-
ion of the Federal Constitution which
guarantees free Interstate commerce
between the states. Even from the
narrow standpoint of state interests
such policy is unwise, as other South
ern states have already learned to
their cost.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12

A Boston electrician has been weld
ing iron by new agency which be
pretends to understand. The method
consists in simply forcing the ends to
bewelded tightly together and passing
asufficiently powerful current through
the joint. The resistance raises the
metal to a welded heat, and the pres,
sure makes thejoint Copper and iron
wires have thus been Joined. The cost
of the new process is said to be much
below the old method.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12

The Boston Globe is striving to re-
establish IN New England the custom
which has fallen into disuse in ali por-
lions of the United States, of publish
ing announcements of births. AS an
incentive to the publication of these
interesting family events, it offers,
patterning after theexample of Lon
don soap firm, to give cake of baby
soap in every case in which the an
nouncement of birth taking place in
New England was made in it's columns.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
Political Notes.

The Republican legisla tive caucus at
Lansing, Mich, on the 9Th, nominated
Francis B. Stockbridge, of Kalamazoo, for
United States senator on the tenth ballot;
This is equivalent to an election Mr..
Stockbridge succeeds Mr.. Conger, who re-
tires March 3, 1887
The Republicans in the Minnesota legis-
lature have nominated ex-Gov. Cushman
K Davis for United States senator,
Senator Cockrell has been renominated
by the Democrats of the Missouri legisla-
ture
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12

William Balantine, the well-known ser.
geant.at-law, OF London, is dead. He was
born in London about 1911, and was the
son OF William Ballantine, well-known
metropolitan police magistrate. He was
called to the bar at the Inner Temple in
1884, and went on the home circuit. Tn
1856 he was created sergeant.at-law. and
ia 1868 he received a patent of precedence.
He was Liberal in politics, and several
times sought election to Parliament in
that interest. but without success. He
came to the United States in 1898 and
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
COASTENG ACCIDENTS.
Several Boys Killed and Many Injured il
New England.

Several Boys Killed and Many Injured in
New England.
Twenty boys were coasting down
South Main Street in Rutland, VT,
on the 9th, on a traverse sled, when
the sled struck the side of bridge at
the foot of the hill, throwing the boys
head-frst into the stream. Cyril Gee,
Is years old, was thrown twenty feet.
His head struck against q stump and
the whole top of his skull was crushed
in. John Kingsley, aged IL years,
was internally injured and will prob
ably die. Thomas Shields, II years
old, was picked up unconscious. The
remaining seventeen boys were al
more Or less bruised, but none serious
ly hurt. While three boys were coast.
ing in Wentworth, Mass, their sled
ran into load of lumber and two of
them were instantly killed. The
other cannot live.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12

THE feeling among German officials,
both civil and military, toward the
United States, is one of bitterness,
though none of them can give any SEN
sible reason for it. Among the masses
the case is exactly the reverse. Bis
marck would be glad to see his people
hating every other nation. That
might prevent immigration, and help
raise the price of pork and hams in
the Empire.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
The Cleo Law Valid.

The Pennsylvania supreme court on the
Sd affirmed the constitutionality and
validity of the "oleomargarine' act. In
the course of the opinion the court says:
"The manufacture, sale and keeping of an
legislature if in their Judgment the pro-
lection Of the public from injury and fraud
requires it. To deny the authority of the
legislature to do SO, is to attack all that is
vital in the police power"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12

WHEN China gets three or four more
iron.clads completed and ready Tor
action it may conclude to take meas
ures for protecting the Cinnamon IN
this country One of these monsters
stationed off San Francisco would
tend greatly to increase the respect OF
the people of the Pacific coast Tor the
pig-tail residents among them.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
Into a Mash Tub.

John Taylor, an employee OF Rolph's
vinegar works, at Louisville, KY, on the
7th, fell into a mash tub at that place and
was SO badly scalded that he died thesame
afternoon. He was standing on a board
extending across the top of the tub, when
his foot slipped. The temperature of the
mash was about ITO degrees and before he
could be extricated the flesh on some por-
tions OF his body was literally cooked and
fell off in great flakes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
Important.

Wien you visit or leave New York CITY
save baggage, expressage and So carriage
hire, and stop at the GRAND UNION HO
TEL, opposite Grand Central Depot.
Six hundred and thirteen rooms, fitted
up at a cost of one million dollars, 81 and
upwards per day. European plan. Ele-
vator. Restaurant supplied with the best.
Horse cars, stages and elevated railroads
to all depots. Families can live better for
less money at the Grand Union Hotel thar
at any other first-class hotel in the city
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12

A HORSE belonging to Jacob Smith,
of Perrysville, KY, got out OF the
field the other day and went hunting
and after being gone half day re-
turned with pocketbook containing
S14 in his mouth. This Mr.. Smith
considers pretty good for roam which
never had lesson in highway obbery
or pocket-Dicking.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
Labor Notes.

Committees from the Brewers pool and
Brewers Union of st. Louis settled all
their differences on the 9Th, and the strike
which was begun last September by the
members OF the latter has been ended. The
strike was the outcome of the publication
by the pool OF a set OF resolutions adopted
by the pool to the effect that unless boy
colts instituted by the union against two
local breweries were lifted, all members of
the union would be discharged. The men
struck and have remained out ever since.
All, however, left the city except sixty.nine.
Those will be reinstated and their names
will be stricken from the blacklist. The
mems wages have also been raised, the
previous maximum price being now the
minimum rate. In return for this the
union has lifted all the boycotts against
ST. Louis breweries.
The wages question at the Edgar Thomp-
son Steel Works at Pittsburg has been
finally settled by the arbitration commit
tee, and work will be resumed in all de-
partments. The new scale advances wages
on q general average of 10 per cent.
The trouble with the ship carpenters at
Detroit has been settled and the men will
resume work. 1t is said the employers are
to select their own men, being influenced
only by the competency or incompetency
OF the carpenters. The trouble has lasted
several months, during which time men
have been brought from other points and
then kept from working by the Knights of
Labor.
All the collieries in the Wilkesbarre region
shipping over the New Jersey Central Rail
road were idle on the 4th, except two, on
account OF the strike of the dock hands at
Port Johnson and Elzabethport. The
closing OF the mines has thrown out of en-
ployment 5000 men and boys at the Le-
high and Wilkesbarre company's mines
$50 at the Hanover company 9; $50 at the
Red Ash; 100 at the Bennett, and 500 at
the Parish companys mine-a total of
8. 100
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
THE MORMOV LOBBY.
Opponents of the Edmunds Act Busily
Work at Washington.

Opponents of the Edmunds Act BusiIy at
Work at Washington.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 5.-Rein-
forcements to the Mormon lobby have
arrived, and if the bill amendatory to
the Edmunds act is not passed at this
session it will be due to the
influence of these men. They are
visiting the homes of some of the
members of the House and pulling
every string possible to stave off &C.
ton. It is reported that Mr.. Randall
is not in favor of considering the bill
at this session; but this do not know
to be true. In fact it seems improba-
BILE. The measure now pending is the
last nail in the coffin of polygamy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
Railroad Casualties.

The breaking OF an axle on the Modoc
express on the Boston & Albany road near
Springfield. Mass, on the 4th, derailed a
portion of the train. Charles Packard, a
printer, and an unknown man were killed
and seventeen other passengers were in
lured; On the same day freight train on
the Burlington & Quincy collided with a
coal train at Streator, H., killing one man
and iniuring two others. One man was
killed by collision between two Missouri
Pacific trains at Holding, Mo. Both engines
were wrecked
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
neeGa of Blood

Jim Jones, colored, was hanged at
Shreveport, La, on the 7th, for the muir
der of Emma Edwards in 1884.
Dick Hurley shot and instantly killed
John Heating, on the 9Th, at Cincinnati.
The occurrence took place in q saloon
where the men had quarreled about dog
Both were ward politicians, and Hurley
has an unsavory reputation.
At Morgantown KY, s. M. Sterritt, CON-
mtted suicide because his mother and sis
ter would not allow him to bring his new
ly welded wife to their home.
William e, Dizan, living at Wheelock
VT, was arrested on the 9Th, charged with
killing his infant daughter. 1t ls alleged
that Dian crushed the childs skull with q
| blow of his fist.
For 5000 A. F. Nicken, Denver's most
prominent colored man, was brutally muir
dered in his barber shop on the night O
the Sd inst, by Charles Green, an employe
The money was found seereted under tbs
| bed of the murderer.
A man dressed in dark suit OF clothes
committed suicide on the Sd by jumpin,
from the railway suspension bridge into
the rapids of Niagara River, distance O
| 1876 feet.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12

Two government officials in Dun,
kirk, n. Y, who collect the United
States revenues have gathered into
thepublic Golfers during theyear $zoS
For this service they have been PAID
modest salaries, amounting to 81, 446
Thus it is that the government has
accumulated that vast and trouble
some SURPLUS.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
His Bail Reduced.

In the st: Louis criminal court on the
18th, counsel for Fotheringham applied for
q reduction of his clients bail. He was
indicted on two charges of grand
larceny and that of receiving stolen prop
erty. The court fixed the bail in each case
at $500 The original amount was $780,
600, $4,000 in each case.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
The Rtpnblita't
wATERrowN. wdsCoNEIK-

AN Eastern philosopher gives this
advice to young pc ople for the coming
year: Rise early, dress sensibly, live
temperateH, av old worrinents, seek
innocent amusements and save some
thing. Try it on. It will do for old
as we'll ss for young.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12

A NEW YORK contemporary ex-
presses it's gratifed surprise that q
rumor of the death of Emperor William
created no panic in Wall Street. AS
the Emperor William is 80 years old
his death could hardly belooked upon
as one of those unexpected events
which boom or discourage speculation
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
John Roach Dying.

A New York dispatch of the Sd says the
physicians in attendance upon ] ohn Roach
now no longer deny that their patients
lease of life is very short. The great ship
builder is suffering from the same disease
which took away Gen. Grant, the seat of
the trouble being in the roof of the mouth
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12

THE Texas man who branded his
wife with hot iron was perhaps
afraid that she might get lost and he
could not identity her, but as he would
not permit the rule to work both
ways, and further insisted on hanging
her up head downwards, whipping her
with rawhide, etc., his fellow.men
thought best to lynch him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
Marine Collision.

The British steamer Dragoman collided
with and sunk the ship Duke of 'Connaught,
off Bard's Eye. The steamer was badly
damaged. OF the crew of twenty
men on the Duke of Connaught, eighteen
were drowned
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12

MUNKAcsY, che artist, has pro-
nounced the White House one of the
most artistic buildings in the world,
and Munkacey is supposed to know.
Thus is explained the intense longing
which so many cultivated people have
to live in that mansion.